Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:24:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:23:59 -0400 Received: from geos.coastside.net ([207.213.212.4]:36036 "EHLO geos.coastside.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:23:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:23:46 -0700 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jonathan Lundell Subject: Re: deregister? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 10:40 PM -0600 2001-04-29, Paul Fulghum wrote: >Andres Salomon wrote: > >>I'm kind of curious; "deregister" is used quite often in the kernel: >> >>pcmcia_deregister_client >... > >>matroxfb_dh_deregisterfb >> >>Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, >>according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. >>Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in >>place of "unregister"? > >Linux kernel source vs. the English language. >One of them will have to bend... >let's get ready to rumble! > >Now that it has been pointed out it will mildly >irritate people (myself included) until it >*is* corrected (I guess ignorance was bliss :-) At 10:03 PM -0400 2001-04-29, Andres Salomon wrote: >Americans can spell? Since when? OED 2nd Ed: deregister. v. trans. To remove from a register. Hence deregistration. (first citation 1925) unregistered. ppl. a. Not entered in a register; unrecorded. (first citation 1604) The OED has no entry for "unregister". -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/